Good Weather

Weather seems a rather pedestrian topic--unless you're an athlete who hates training indoors! Yesterday and today we've experienced unseasonably warm weather so I took full advantage by getting in two long (by my standards) bicycle rides. I did well, considering I cannot find a saddle I can ride for long without great discomfort. That is really the breaking point in my ability to ride longer distances. Having saddle discomfort throws everything off: my pedal stroke, my lower back, my shoulders, etc. I will start looking around for demo saddles to see what I can find. I really like the SMP design, though the one I currently have is too broad (155 mm), forcing me up too far on the saddle nose. I'd like to see what a 143 mm (my size) would be like. My kingdom for a saddle!!

It's also funny that the weather is nice right now. When it was all wet--"Scottish weather" I call it--I recalled my favorite jibe to my friend, Madeleine (native of Edinburgh), "Take this Scottish weather back to Dundee!" Well, today she is on a plane headed for...Scotland! (Not Dundee. It's a private joke.) Perhaps she is taking the weather back with her! Alas, though, it will only lend a temporary reprieve. A wicked cold front is moving in tonight and we won't see such warm temps again for a while. (I do hope there won't be much wet stuff.)

Cold weather. Husband leaving on a short trip. I see a lot of reading on the couch in my future. I just hope I can muster enough "oomph" to go out for an occasional run (which I like doing when it's cool) and get in some trainer miles. Lord knows with all the holiday food in my future I need to burn calories as much as I can.

Oh, one more note: Junior has been granted a reprieve! For some reason, Jim decided about a month ago that Junior should not be allowed outdoors anymore because he had taken to crossing the road in front of our house and Jim was afraid June would get hit. (Never mind that Junior is very careful.) So for weeks now Junior has been imprisoned indoors, standing at doors and windows crying to go out. I admit he had gotten fairly used to it. Now that he's allowed out again he won't tolerate being kept indoors for long. (Sigh.) I'm glad he (Junior) is happy, but I miss him!